Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Kinetic Element - Chasing the Lesser Light (2023)

The fourth album from this band from USA.

The band is a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, synths, piano, organ and vocals.

This is a band I have always been aware of but not really had the fortune of reviewing that much. I did a review of their 2015 album Travelog some years ago and thought that was a very good album. 

The band is back again after a four years long break. Maybe the pandemic had a lot to do about that. 

The band's take on progressive rock is neo-prog with the English 1990s sound and a large chunk of symphonic prog added onto this again.

The five songs are all on average well over ten minutes long. The title track about one of the Apollo missions is twenty minutes long. It has some moving lyrics too.

The musicians is doing a very good job.The weakest link is the vocals and they are simply not up to the task the song writers has set the vocalist. 

The sound is also a bit too thin.

Nevertheless, this is a good album and one neo-prog fans should check out. I will get the remaining two albums I have not got, the first and the third, and review them later this summer.

3 points

 

 

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